Outline for discussion at a Workshop on Epistemology held at Dhaka on September 1, 2007 by Professor Omar Hasan Kasule MB ChB (MUK), MPH (Harvard), DrPH (Harvard) Professor of Epidemiology and Islamic Medicine University Brunei and Visiting Professor of Epidemiology University Malaya
1.0 INTRODUCTION
Economics is the main discipline that provides the paradigms of other disciplines related to business and finance. Epistemological work should therefore start with economics. Concepts and paradigms that are biased should be identified and an objective reformulation should be achieved. The rest of the disciplines in this group are based on economic paradigms but most of them are pragmatic reflecting accumulation of empirical experience that sometimes has no theoretical basis. These practical and pragmatic disciplines need to be analyzed from the context of guidelines on fiqh al mu’amalaat maaliyyat. They should also be analyzed from the context of general social ethics, akhlaq.
2.0 ECONOMICS
2.1 Definition and classification
2.2 Historical development
2.3 Research Methods
2.4 Islamic Epistemological critique of basic concepts and paradigms
2.5 Islamic Epistemological introduction to the discipline
3.0 BANKING
3.1 Definition and classification
3.2 Historical development
3.3 Research Methods
3.4 Islamic Epistemological critique of basic concepts and paradigms
3.5 Islamic Epistemological introduction to the discipline
3.6 Role of fiqh al mu’amalaat al maaliyyat
4.0 FINANCE
4.1 Definition and classification
4.2 Historical development
4.3 Research Methods
4.4 Islamic Epistemological critique of basic concepts and paradigms
4.5 Islamic Epistemological introduction to the discipline
4.6 Role of fiqh al mu’amalaat al maaliyyat
5.0 ACCOUNTING
5.1 Definition and classification
5.2 Historical development
5.3 Research Methods
5.4 Islamic Epistemological critique of basic concepts and paradigms
5.5 Islamic Epistemological introduction to the discipline
5.6 Role of fiqh al mu’amalaat al maaliyyat
6.0 BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
6.1 Definition and classification
6.2 Historical development
6.3 Research Methods
6.4 Islamic Epistemological critique of basic concepts and paradigms
6.5 Islamic Epistemological introduction to the discipline
6.6 Role of fiqh al mu’amalaat al maaliyyat
7.0 MANAGEMENT
7.1 Definition and classification
7.2 Historical development
7.3 Research Methods
7.4 Islamic Epistemological critique of basic concepts and paradigms
7.5 Islamic Epistemological introduction to the discipline
7.6 Role of fiqh al mu’amalaat al maaliyyat
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© Professor Omar Hasan Kasule September 2007
© Professor Omar Hasan Kasule September 2007
